Word: conceptions
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...policy of the outgoing Administration was to support the concept of an international conference provided -- big proviso -- it was properly structured and provided its purpose was to lead to direct negotiations between the parties. I see no reason why we would depart from the policy with those provisos. We don't oppose categorically a Soviet role. But we do think it's important that any such role be a constructive one, and we would like to see them demonstrate this through action, not just words. One way would be to restore full diplomatic relations with Israel, to continue to permit...
...Paine Hall discussion for the Visions '89 Conference on Saturday, Stanford University graduate Rudy Fuentes declared that last year's mass minority protest against the school's Western Civilization requirement was not an isolated event but part of a movement toward "changing the concept of education at Stanford...
Voluntary national service has long been widely popular; in an early 1988 Gallup poll, 83% of those surveyed endorsed the concept. The problem is that given free choice, few 18-year-olds are likely to sign on at subsistence wages to empty bedpans or monitor naptime in day-care centers. Existing state and local programs that foster community-service apprenticeships have been unable to tap the wellsprings of middle-class idealism; in 1987 almost all the 7,000 ! young adults enrolled in such programs came from low-income families. The sad truth is that any major commitment to national service...
...sound concept on the saxophone is an extension of Coleman Hawkins and can be described as robust and virile," Everett says...
...exactly what you'd call a sophisticated concept for a film. Yet, as a "made for television movie," the plot for Her Alibi might be almost palatable. Selleck is in top Magnum P.I. form here--he barely needs to change his act, and one cannot help thinking that that was the original intent of writer/director Bruce Beresford. The cynical and self-deprecating cracks are in full force, and there is even that familiar Selleck voiceover that distinguished the Magnum TV series...